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We recently clustered an application, and it came to light that because of how we're doing SSL offloading via the load balancer in production it didn't work right. I had to mimic this functionality on my local machine by SSL offloading Apache with a proxy, but it still isn't a 1-to-1 comparison. Similar issues can arise when dealing with stateful applications and sticky sessions. What would be the industry standard for testing this kind of production "black box" scenario in a local environment, especially as it relates to clustering?

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It can be expensive and painful, but in the end you need to have a local "cluster". Trying to simulate race conditions, contention and the like are very hard on a single PC (my interpretation of "local development environment").

From past experience I would suggest:

I have used this strategy in the past and was able to identify the underlying bug. Then I was able to develop locally and unit test locally before deploying the fix to the test cluster.

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